Seal the border with Mexico

Having identified the source of this virus as Mexico, and now that the US has it's first confirmed death, in a border state no less, why are we not
taking action to restrict all travel to Mexico and seal the border crossings?

Lets see, what other redeeming value can Mexico give us, at this point? (end sarcasm) Many other 1st rate nations are taking steps much more
aggressively than the US, to thwart the spread of this swine flu Bull crap. CDC is a joke, HLS is a joke. How much more of this non stop ass rape are
we supposed to endure?

It's also in Canada and the USA so with your logic of sealing the Mexico border shouldn't we seal the Canadian/USA borders as well? Restrict all
travel to USA, Canada and Mexico. Doesn't it make good sense?

It's past the point of containment, it's already here. So closing borders isn't going to do anything now. If it was going to be done it should have
been done 2 weeks ago. Too late now.

there is no way to seal the border, if there was we wouldn't have an illegal immigration issue

the virus is already spread around the world, so even if you could seal it...too little too late

Going to the extreme of tryin to completely seal the border is foolish, since swine flu is hardly the raging deadly virus that the media and some
total idiots are making it out to be. Maybe we should start sealing the border next time a tourist gets the runs from eating at a taco cart too
huh?

Sealing the boarder (if 100% possible) might slow it down but wouldnt keep the USA from exposure. What would need to happen is ALL shipping,
airports, borders would have to close. In effect, the USA would have to be completely cut off from the rest of the world (other than communications)
but even then with all that, it probably wouldn't put a complete stop to the spread of the virus.

and every single international case has been tied back to Mexico as the source.

Then please explain the ties to Mexico of the two children near San Diego that contracted the virus in late March?

Federal, state and local health officials are investigating why two kids in California got infected with a new swine flu in late March without
getting into contact with pigs or with each other.

The 10-year-old boy from San Diego County and the nine-year-old girl from neighboring Imperial County recovered from the H1N1 subtype of influenza A,
which is rare in humans, and there are no indication the virus is spreading, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials said Tuesday.

We need to control the damage already done. If there is a run on hospitals- who will be the people getting the limited anti-viral drugs? We have
50million doses. We have 300+million citizens. We have an unknown drain on our resources crossing our borders. There is no way to know how long it
will be until the U.S. runs out of anti-viral meds. When that happens the mortality rate will go up astronomically. That is why Mexicans are running
for our borders to get, free, life saving drugs. To be blunt: my tax dollars paid for it, I fought for it (I am a military member), I want to
preserve my way of life, and protect my children from any danger. If that means turning the sick away to die in there country so U.S. citizens can
live- so be it. If you want an open border, you go cross into Mexico. Otherwise call your congressman, call DHS, or protest in the streets... Tell
the government to deploy troops to the southern border. We have several thousand in Texas waiting...

Another Point: The number of confirmed cases in the U.S. has roughly doubled each day since Friday. To confirm a case of swine flu a sample needs to
be shipped to the CDC, tested and other processes are involved. The actual number of infected people will remain unknown. An estimate of people
infected is reported for Mexico. The fatalities are also estimates (based on the fact reports come out before cause of death is established). So for
what it is worth the AP is reporting a 6:100 (159 dead 2500 infected) mortality rate for the swine flu in Mexico. So do the math. If half of the
300+million U.S. citizens get sick and 6 out of 100 die that is a total of... 300/2=150/3=50 [6:100/2=3:50] 50x3:3x3=150:9.......... or 150+million
sick 9 million dead... the common flu doesn't kill or infect this fast... and uhh yea, we only have 50 million anti-viral meds... I wonder what the
numbers will look like when we run out of effective medicine to combat this swine flu for the other 100 million citizens (assuming only half of us get
sick and we only treat citizens).
good day

this is NOT like the regular flu so those stats are useless. This is a swine/avian/human hybrid which has the potential to act like the 1918 flu that
killed tens of millions.

Where did you hear that?

Swine flu is swine flu, human flu is human flu, and avian flu is avian flu. If and when they mingle, they may be completely innocuous, or very
deadly.

Seriously, who is coming up with this notion that the swine flu is a deadly hybrid strain? The symptoms are standard flu-like symptoms, and in the
vast majority of cases they clear up without incident after some rest.

ANY influenza virus has the potential to achieve pandemic status and kill tens of millions of people - it's a constantly evolving pathogen. I don't
understand what all the fuss is about..fact of life on this planet, no more or less scary than any other day at the office, so to speak.

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